Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-26
CIvIL-sERvICE PROMOTIONS.
to be AppOrtiOned Ac-
cOrding to the Quotas Of the States.

The Civil Service Commission have already Ger
titled to the War Department names from the
eligible list for the eight 200 vacancies in that
Department, and names to I'LL the forty-eight
vacancies in the LOCO class will Immediately be
certified. All OF the certifications will be made
without delay. There are plenty of names on the
eligible list, and the Commission in making their
certihcations Will keep In view the apportionment
of the places according to the quotas the different
States. "For instance" said Commissioner Lyman
to a STAR reporter: "We will certify four names,
perhaps, from Maine, four from Vermont, and so
on with numerous other States. Now, as the num-
Der Of vacancies exceeds the number OF States. 1t
will be necessary to give some of the larger States
more than one each. Say with New York penn
sylvania and large States we will adopt this plan.
Four names viii be certified for vacancy, then
one name vii! be certified for another vacancy, to
taken from the first certificat1on. That will give
five names from which to select two appointments
out OF the four names sent up only one can be
chosen. Then the appointing power can take the
three not seiectedtn connection with the one name
certified and that gives him four from which TO
will be filled without delay.
SATISFIED WITH THE WORKING OF THE NEW RULES.
The Civil Service Commissioners are entirely
satisfied with the results OF the rules OF promo
tion as applied in the War Department, and they
think the War Department officials are also salts
fed Nothing has yet been determined as to ex-
actiy when or where the rules win next be en-
forced They will ultimately be applied in all the
Departments, but 1t may be deemed expedient to
make some changes suggested by the practical
application or the rules. 1t Is quite likely that
the Treasury Department will next be called upon
to enforce the rules OF promotion though, as a
matter OF fact, Commissioner Lyman says that
for some years past promotions In that Depart
ment have been made only as the result OF exami-
nations.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION.
Commissioner Oberly maintains that promotions
in the Departments made without examination,
since the civtl-servtce law went into force, were
not legal but in this opinion his colleagues of the
commission do not seem to coincide.
The report OF the Commission in the inveStfga-
tion OF the Chicago pOst-Ofiice and custom house
has been submitted TO the President. Commits
sioners ODerly and Lyman, in the report take
square issue with Commissioner EdgertOn as 10
the power OF officials TO remove SubOrdinateS and
as to investigations by the Commission and the
course OF clNll-SerVlce leagues in making charges.
NJ hugeftOil, as he very emphaticay stated In q
recent interview In IHE STAR holds that the civil
service law imposes 10 restrictions upon the re-
movuiS of SubordnateS that din not exist prior to
It's enactment and he further insists that il IS not
Tue province or the Commission 10 go about inveS-
tgatlng charges and complaints. He also main
tans that the clV1-SerVice leagues go beyond their
iegltlmate province In sending forward charges,
Wllcn he points out are lot always sustained.
Me,srS. Oberly and Lyman maintain that the
power OF removal Is very much restricted and
that the civii-sefyice leagues do good work in
watching public officials and pointing out their
partisan acts